Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” October 26th, 2012 “This is what my office did for lunch” #beer and napkin #sketches. August 10th, 2013 “concept assembly sketch for a modern house I will feature on LoaA” #vegetativeroof. August 23rd, 2013 “and so it begins … #design #sketch #architect” #architecture.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Just mark your calendar with the following date: Thursday, November 14th 6:00pm at the Dallas Center for Architecture 1909 Woodall Rodgers Frwy, Suite 100 Register for the Awards Presentation and Lecture here. It was a big inspiration to me during architecture school. I love love love the drawings coming out of this competition.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Edited by Eric Mumford | Alphawood Foundation | 2022 | Hardcover | 9-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 224 pages | 300+ illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780578921129 | $55.00 ( BOTH BOOKS CAN BE PURCHASED ON THE WRIGHTWOOD 659 WEBSITE.) Not a building, that US project was just a room in a museum: Gallery 109 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Architects Tales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Backing up a bit, when I graduated from architecture school, I returned to Wisconsin to look for a job with an architectural firm to continue my apprenticeship. I discovered that two of them – JR and Charles King – were enrolled in law school. Since my curiosity was spurred, I enrolled in Atlanta Law School [10].

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I thought I would pull some out and share them to show just how different things were back in 1990 - No internet … Research meant going to an actual library and sorting through the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal system so you could pull out books. I even sketched the floor plan of my room at the bottom. ( Can you imagine?!?

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Fast forward a few years – the college process is now complete and architectural schools are churning out extremely creative graduates, ready to take on the design world … except few graduates will actually get to work on “BIG IDEA” design projects. Thank you for all your shared content.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

One thing we really work on is trying to get our interns working on something that has value, things that contribute to the office in a positive manner, and something that has value to them when they return to school. We had college architectural interns make this model – they are in their model-making prime!

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Life of an Architect

MAY 4, 2014

The other goal I had for myself was that I wanted to have a project that I had designed make it in to an architectural history book – now that’s a lofty goal. Remember, this is the site of a regular guy who hasn’t made it into the architectural history books … or bought a jet ski.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

When I first started architecture school as a freshman in college, I didn’t have the focus or maturity I needed to tackle the curriculum and I ended up having a serious identity crisis when I was 19 years old. I like variety and change I happen to design modern style projects but that was not always the case.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Secondly, although I’m not an architect, I love buildings and what turned me on to buildings more than anything else was the books in the school library. For me, I think I am torn between the British Art Muesum at Yale by Louis Kahn or the Rare Book Library by SOM again at Yale. So simple yet so complex.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

For the purposes of today’s article, I am going to assume that all architectural drawings are correct and serve their purpose of conveying intent, scope and quantity. When I graduated from architecture school in 199[mumble-mumble], computers were not that prevalent. But that’s not really the entire story is it?

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 13, 2014

Home / Life in General / Motivation – and why it’s important Motivation – and why it’s important Bob Borson — April 14, 2014 — 27 Comments It’s Sunday morning, it’s raining outside, I’m really tired, and the consensus around the house is to lay about, read books and watch television.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The project I now remembered had made a lasting impression on me since it was my first assignment when my then prolific boss, Heinz Egenhofer hired me for my first job out of architecture school. Such sketches are what I recommend my students to prepare if they want to test if they really understand their own design.

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Community Architect

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Reading the exhibition book reveals, that the critics who accused Koolhaas of an elitist perspective just didn’t read the global explorations of countrysides and its historical background. Is the 10 day construction of a hospital from modular units architecture? To hear the man himself thinking, click here ).

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